т. Radek!

You're not doing a good thing. You write feuilletons of monstrous size (about LL. George). No one reads them, you should put them in a magazine and short ones in a newspaper - you know how to write 50 lines.

Then today's editorial is about "M[artov] and Dana "1: Horror! Terrible! You should have put them on the third page and written them in petite. Everyone would have read them and smiled. But you've inadvertently magnified them to the point of ridiculousness. One of the neighboring articles should have been the front page.

Now about something else. In England, I think there's a decisive battle, an election.

I think it is necessary to bring back as quickly as possible all the Englishmen coming here.

12 hours in Russia and fly back.

It is archly stupid to sit here for even one extra hour when there are elections there.

To agree on tactics during these 12 hours: 1) for Lab[our] Party1*; 2) complete freedom of agitation; 3) complete freedom of language (the candidate is an arch-mercenary; therefore I am for him; the masses will learn); 4) leaflets for the masses in this spirit, brief, cheerful, and arch-cheap; 5) how much our help will cost; 6) all members of our Party are mobilized: go door-to-door, all day in the streets, and so on and so forth.

I ask all Englishmen who come to visit to send me.

Call me.

Your Lenin.

Fund 2, op. 2, d. 1255 - autograph.

1* Labor Party

1V.I.Lenin is referring to the editorial "After Martov Dan" in Pravda No. 244 of October 28, 1922.